BBC news are about to give a report on the massive increase in transphobic hate crime

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Tissueboxcover · 27/10/2020 13:34

Just that really.
I wondered if anyone else is watching.

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yourhairiswinterfire · 27/10/2020 14:12

^And meant to add, genuine transphobic abuse is abhorrent and has no place in society, just like homophobia, racism, etc. It angers me that narcissistic brats are diluting what it means.

yourhairiswinterfire · 27/10/2020 14:10

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

Hate crime or hate "incidents"

That's what I was thinking. We've all seen what passes as transphobic hate, so I can't take anything like this seriously anymore sadly, especially not from the BBC who pretend they're unbiased when they've shown they're anything but (women's hour debacle)

This is the effect the activists are having. Women's rights, women's privacy, the word woman, biology, chromosomes, sex, child safeguarding, bereaved mothers, fairness, homosexuality, reality-all transphobic. The boy who cried wolf.

wellbehavedwomen · 27/10/2020 14:09

There is horrible, genuine abuse. The problem is that 'deadnaming' and 'misgendering' is conflated with threats and actual violence. The former are rude, no question, but not actual hatred. And yet the latter can be, and are, reported as hate incidents.

I think the main thing is that transphobic abuse does exist and is grossly unacceptable, though. I don't think there's any need to deny or diminish that, in order to assert that women also deserve respect, provision, and rights both in law and in practice. The two should run in parallel, not be either/or.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 27/10/2020 13:56

Hate crime or hate "incidents"

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